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Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The …

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Duration of Low Wage Employment: A Study Based on a Survival Model

Pimenta, António M. S.; Silva, Francisco J. F.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper includes a survival analysis which attempts to explain the duration, as in the number of years a worker remains in a low wage situation. Explanatory variables take into account the characteristics of the employee, such as education, age, tenure with the company, gender and...

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The Impact of Interest in School on Educational Success in Portugal

Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …

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Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling

Hartog, Joop; Pereira, Pedro T.; Vieira, José A.C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper examines the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal and compares with other countries. We find …

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Inter-Regional Wage Dispersion in Portugal

Vieira, José António Cabral; Couto, João Pedro Almeida; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper examines the size o inter-regional wage dispersion in Portugal. For this purpose, we estimate a Mincer …

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Do Foreign Firms Really Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from Different Estimators

Martins, Pedro S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We contribute to the literature on Foreign Direct Investment and labour markets by examining wage differentials between domestic and foreign firms, drawing on a large Portuguese matched employer-employee panel. Using OLS, the foreign-firm premium is large and significantly positive but falls...

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Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries

Corak, Miles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of …

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How Does the Presence of Children Affect Dependent Care? A Psycho-Economic Approach

Giménez, José Ignacio; Marcén, Miriam; Molina, José … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

that the presence of children has on the time devoted to elder care. We combine the approach of the Social Cognitive Theory …", i.e, the presence of children, while parents are engaged in elder care activities, increases by 11.63% the time devoted … per day when children are present during adult care activities. …

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Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

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Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...

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